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Same with Idris Elba who played one of the most beloved American gangsters on prestige television yet his natural voice is the final boss in a hooligan brawl.
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Also if you natively speak french, german, italian or spanish and have heard Christopher Lee speak your language nearly perfectly, you know that kind of shenanigan isn't limited to accents.
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cant cook creole bream posted:"American accents only" They didn't say anything about whites. You're reading a lot into a non issue.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:They didn't say anything about whites. Yeah no kidding. I'm gonna record something this weekend and send it in, I'm pretty decent at voices, love Gilbert's work, and I live in NYC so it'd be pretty easy, were I picked. Also I'm not white. Not even remotely.
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cant cook creole bream posted:"American accents only" I hate to beat the point but couldn't you just change your accent if you are already a voice actor with presumably any range?
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Also speaking from experience with this sort of thing, if you don't specify that you're looking for actors who can do American accents, you will get a deluge of unusable demos from non-native speakers. Even if you say "American accents only" it's likely you'll still get a lot of those, and a fair amount of auditionees who are incorrectly convinced they can do a spot-on American accent. But when you're a fairly small studio, you kind of need to do anything you can to not spend weeks sifting through open audition demos. And yeah, it's certainly possible for anyone to do an American accent, but it's easy to underestimate the time you have to put into practice/training to convincingly do a non-native accent. As people have pointed out, plenty of actors pull it off exceptionally well, like Hugh Laurie as House, or Hugh Jackman as any number of characters (I'm sure there are still a lot of people who don't know he's Australian). But if you're not a professional actor it's a lot harder to put in that time. If you're the only non-native voice actor in a cast of, say, a dozen Americans, you'd need to be pretty spot-on in your delivery or you'd stick out like a sore thumb. A lot of people who are new to acting in accents not their own tend to focus solely on pronunciation and vowel formation in particular, but to sell an accent you also really need to have a handle on cadence, pitch variance, inflection, those sorts of thing too.
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MockingQuantum posted:... plenty of actors pull it off exceptionally well, like Hugh Laurie as House... Uhhhhhhhhhhhh.....
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Uhhhhhhhhhhhh..... Well enough for uncritical American audiences, though he does slip pretty frequently, especially when singing.
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MockingQuantum posted:Well enough for uncritical American audiences, though he does slip pretty frequently, especially when singing. Especially in Avenue 5 too, was all over the place there.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Especially in Avenue 5 too, was all over the place there. That's not really fair considering his American voice being fake was a big part of his character.
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MockingQuantum posted:Well enough for uncritical American audiences, though he does slip pretty frequently, especially when singing. I either didn't know or forgot about it, but when it was pointed out to me that Hugh Laurie was British and doing an American accent, it occurred to me how the inflection in some of his deliveries don't sound quite right. I am sort of curious as to whether or not he's done a Southern accent, since Brits tend to pull off Southern pretty well.
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Looking for some good horror adventures for the spoopy time of year. Some stuff I have previously enjoyed: - The Last Door, both seasons, though I think season 2 ended up tying things up a bit too neatly. Season 1 was excellent. - Liked the Cat Lady, had issues with the other two parts of that trilogy. - Phantasmagoria 1 and 2 I found enjoyable at the cheesier end of the spectrum. - Gabriel Knight series I liked but I thought each entry had strengths and weaknesses. (The best possible Gabriel Knight game would include the audacious backstory of 3, the emotional resonance and tight plotting of 2, and the deep, intricate conversations, fleshed-out characterisation and evocative sense of place of 1, with puzzle design as good as Le Serpente Rouge in 3. The worst possible one would have the clumsy treatment of racially charged subject matter of 1, the crappy maze section and chickening-out of depicting LGBT+ content of 2, and the clunky control system of 3, with puzzle design based largely on the cat-moustache puzzle from 3.) - Yahtzee's Trilby stuff I thought was very good. - Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet and Prisoner of Ice I thought were both cute but flawed. Shadow I thought was better than Prisoner, but Shadow is a mixture of Very Bad and A Bit Good rather than ever being excellent. - Scratches lost me at the end but I liked the early parts of it. Dark Fall and Barrow Hill I thought were pretty awful. - Liked the first season of The Walking Dead, never started the second season and based on posts here I think they would have bugged the poo poo out of me. (In particular, AIUI Clementine's the protagonist now, and I feel like making her the character you control completely subverts the point of the first season; it'd be much more effective if she were an NPC whose behaviour is heavily dependent on your interactions with her in the first season.) - I thought the Black Mirror trilogy was OK. - I got bored by Still Life and gave up three quarters of the way in.
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Warthur posted:
Season 3 actually does that with an older (mid to late teens) Clementine. The bugger problem with 2 is how silly it gets to justify Clementine making the decisions. Have you played Fran Bow?
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Mokinokaro posted:Season 3 actually does that with an older (mid to late teens) Clementine. The bugger problem with 2 is how silly it gets to justify Clementine making the decisions. quote:Have you played Fran Bow?
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Warthur posted:Do they do a decent job of actually depicting what the world would be like over a decade after a zombie apocalypse, or is everyone just Dawn of the Deading it around like the zombie apocalypse started a month ago or something? Sadly more the latter but a big part of season 4 is establishing a stable community.
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Try World of Horror, the Rusty Lake games, Sanitarium, Amnesia, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
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Penumbra as well if you go that route. Not much tops Penumbra and Amnesia (Dark Descent NOT machine for pigs) for just plain "oh poo poo" moments. Also along those lines Alien: Isolation is great.
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Mokinokaro posted:Penumbra as well if you go that route.
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The Blackwell series and Unavowed have horror elements. And they are excellent adventure games.
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There's also stuff like Until Dawn (PS4) and The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan (PC). The second one in that Anthology (Little Hope) should be out late October.
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Submitted my demo thing to the Wadjet Eye email. They totally suck, only time I could find this weekend without either my nanny sitting in the room or my child shrieking and making noise was tonight after she and my wife were asleep, so I had to half-whisper most of it and therefore couldn't even bother attempting one character, since he'd need a loud boomy voice. Oh well, we'll see! EDIT: Or not. Just got a bounceback email that their inbox is full. What a rip! 
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Fuzz posted:Submitted my demo thing to the Wadjet Eye email. They totally suck, only time I could find this weekend without either my nanny sitting in the room or my child shrieking and making noise was tonight after she and my wife were asleep, so I had to half-whisper most of it and therefore couldn't even bother attempting one character, since he'd need a loud boomy voice.
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https://twitter.com/WadjetEyeGames/status/1313076902199001091 https://twitter.com/WadjetEyeGames/status/1313083004391219200
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Warthur posted:Looking for some good horror adventures for the spoopy time of year. Some stuff I have previously enjoyed: There are a bunch more recommendations in the Horror thread to shamelessly plug that: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3648165 And that reminds me another one that was brought up there recently was What Remains of Edith Finch. A first person narrative game with some really good, creative storytelling. Pretty light horror and more mystery.
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The The Room games are not very spooky but they have great atmosphere and some nice creeping dread the further you get into each game. Will always recommend that series, it's terrific.
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I've heard good things about Lakeview Cabin Collection, and it apparently has adventure game elements. Its currently on my backlog and I should play it at some point.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:I've heard good things about Lakeview Cabin Collection, and it apparently has adventure game elements. Its currently on my backlog and I should play it at some point.
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I'm kinda excited for the LSL game coming out next week. I guess I liked the new one enough or something.
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There's a new LSL?
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John F Bennett posted:There's a new LSL? 2 of them. 2nd comes out next week.
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There's also apparently a prequel coming for Syberia, in 2021. I didn't play Syberia 3 yet, but a prequel makes way more sense to me. It https://store.steampowered.com/app/1410640/Syberia_The_World_Before/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSe7gptFEGI Edit: Pre-orders are not open yet. AbstractNapper fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Oct 9, 2020 |
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Didn't play it either, but wasn't Syberia 3 a pretty big departure from the storyline of the first two games, too? Seemed like a very tenuous connection, outside of the same player character and general setting.
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New Syberia is a prequel I believe.
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Waltzing Along posted:2 of them. 2nd comes out next week. Am I just following the wrong feeds or were they not promoted much?
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Dunno. I either saw it advertised on Steam or on adventuregamers.com. The first one, I mean. Well, the second, too.
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In case you've missed it, Dave Gilbert of Wadjet Eye has been doing dev streams of his new game Old Skies on his Twitch channel. Here's a highlight he recently posted on his Youtube showing the original prototype he made for a game jam in Unity (the final game will be in AGS again): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4jYJSNbcPE
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Chairman Capone posted:Didn't play it either, but wasn't Syberia 3 a pretty big departure from the storyline of the first two games, too? Seemed like a very tenuous connection, outside of the same player character and general setting. I think it's both a prequel and a sequel.
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This week's episode of the podcast How Did This Get Played is on Maniac Mansion. Might interest the posters here: https://www.earwolf.com/episode/maniac-mansion-with-kelly-nugent/
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Chairman Capone posted:This week's episode of the podcast How Did This Get Played is on Maniac Mansion. Might interest the posters here: Oh thanks, will give that a listen! 
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